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Deep to superficial. Local to Global. Hip day wit

Deep to superficial.
Local to Global.
Hip day with @functional_range_conditioning

Some of the things you are seeing here:
Cable loaded rotation, adduction from flexion and extension, extension with knee extension and flexion. Why? Because the SAID principle dictates that if I want something to get stronger I need to be specific with my intent and my input.

Finishing off the session with some trap bar deadlifts and carries barefoot. Why? Lifting and carrying things over distance is going to be a challenge we face in the world regularly. Barefoot training to get the foot stronger and feel every step, every input.

Everything I did in the first block was to give me the capacity to do the thing in the last block. That’s what training should be. It should give us capacity to do the things we want or need to do. It’s why I use FRC principles in a lot of my training and coaching. Because it’s about building resiliency and capacity specifically to the individual and their needs. It’s not exclusionary of other expressions of strength. In fact, it’s inclusive. It’s the lens at which we look at how to load and why to load and what to load.

#frc #frcms #hipmobility #hiptraining #mobility #strength #strengthtraining #frcism #functionalrangesystems #strengthandconditioning #functionalfitness #deadlift #orlandogym #orlandopersonaltrainer #cfw

Dynamic Stability work with the surge. Loading th

Dynamic Stability work with the surge.

Loading the body dynamically in multiple planes of motion creates a a full body challenge that includes everything from hip stability, to ankle mobility to core strength. Water is one of my favorite loading tools for their sequence (Surge is water filled) to create even more ownership of each position.

Feet plugged into the ground in my vivos, so I can feel and react uninterrupted from the ground up.

How do you move?

#movement #core #mobility #stability #strength #core #balance #3dmaps #hipmobility #spinemobility #anklemobility #personaltrainer #surge #waterresistance #menshealth #coretraining #myvivos #cfw

Shoutout to just some of the men who train with US

Shoutout to just some of the men who train with US.

Men who are proactive with their health.
Men who understand that moving well and looking great are not mutually exclusive.
Men who strive for 1% better every session in and out of the gym.
Men who relentlessly pursue the three tenants of Unconventional Strength:
Strength.
Mobility.
Movement without Limits.

Whether in person or virtually, we understand the challenges men face from preconceived notions of training, time constraints and chronic pain. If you are ready to take back control of your movement health and physical wellbeing, join US. Comment below or shoot us a message.

We are here to support you.

#menshealth #strengthtraining #strengthandconditioning #mensfitness #fitness #personaltraining #personaltrainer #orlandogym #orlandofitness #cfw #trainhard #workout

Did you know your foot is made up of 26 bones, 33

Did you know your foot is made up of 26 bones, 33 joints and over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments?

Foot and ankle complex has 34 muscles!

What do we know about muscles?
They are trainable.
They experience growth.
If weak, they can cause dysfunction.

This is why your footwear MATTERS.

Ask yourself this question: Does your footwear restrict your foot or allow it to move?

Footwear in the gym should allow our foot to bend and flex when we need it.
It should allow us to feel the ground under us to stabilize.
It should allow us to be dynamic and static, just like the muscles in your foot allow you to be.

This is why, in our studio, we train barefoot or in @vivobarefoot.

Check out the exercises in this video: I need my foot to be connected to the ground, to bend and flex in the lunge, to dorsiflex fully in the TRX Row.

Footwear should empower you, not restrict you.
Train the foot.
It matters.

#vivo #vivobarefoot #foothealth #mobility #stability #strength #strengthtraining #balance #stability #myvivos #health #orlando #orlandopersonaltrainer #cfw

“All you guys do is stretch and train mobility.”
“Do you even lift weights?”
“I want to put on muscle. Can you coach for that?”

Upper focused pull session.
Barbell supinated bent over rows, cable straight bar pull downs, resistance band bicep curls at various angles and adding rotation.

It’s not that we don’t train people to get strong and put on muscle. It’s that we don’t throw on junk volume and hurt people with what we do.
It’s what makes what we do “unconventional.”

Conventional training tends to:
Ignore your history or biology.
Holds to arbitrary standards of gym movements.
Trains primarily one plane of motion.
Leaves you feeling defeated after workouts.
Implements strategies that are not evidence based.

We do the opposite.
The individual matters.
Their history matters.
How you feel at the end of session matters.
How you move and why you move matters.

Come try why we’ve had success over a decade helping athletes and regular individuals alike discover strength training that lasts them a lifetime.

(Don’t mind my wolverine hair.)

#strengthtraining #strengthandconditioning #strengthcoach #fitness #upperbody #arms #core #personaltrainer #mobility #jointhealth #orlando #orlandopersonaltrainer #orlandofitness #cfw #curryfordwest

Training the lower body post injury and using retu

Training the lower body post injury and using return to performance protocols as I return back from the torn gastroc.

Focus on this session was knee and hip strength. Started with improving hip extension, knee flexion mobility, loading hip ER tissue eccentrically and hip flexor in a shortened position. Moved on to external training with focusing on three ways to load the hip and knee: unilateral transverse bias, ipsilateral explosive loading and finally bilateral jumps (incorporating jumping in my program and using @sanddunestepper).

Slowly but surely feeling closer to my old self.
Return to performance is segmented and takes time. The focus needs to be implementing velocity and load incrementally to eventually return not just to pre injury levels, but use the time to improve and exceed levels the athlete was at prior.

It’s a process but one that can teach an athlete so many valuable lessons.

#returntoperformance #injuryrecovery #injuryrehab #athlete #legday #hipmobility #rtp #sanddune #glutetraining #landmine #orlando #personaltrainer #workout #cfw #🍑

Add some rotation to your press with Landmine Rota

Add some rotation to your press with Landmine Rotational Push Press.

Benefits:
1) Makes the push a more dynamic full body exercise
2) Incorporates rotational elements of the shoulder.
3) 45 degree angle is easily attainable for most individuals even with shoulder pathology.
4) Easy to vary loading for progressive overload

This ladder was a ladder of 10-5 (10 per side down to 5 per side). Also added neuro stimulation of the foot with the naboso mat, focusing on incorporating “short foot” to work on activating the whole body from the ground up.

We all need to press and find ways that match our biology to do it safely and without pain.

Try this one out and tag us.

#landmine #landminepress #movement #painfreemovement #fullbodyexercise #strengthtraining #menshealth #movementismedicine #orlando #personaltrainer #strengthandconditioning #cfw

Sled Talk Episode #2 “Move with Pain” with @xe

Sled Talk Episode #2 “Move with Pain” with @xebexfitness sled

It’s time for this weeks sledtalk, and on this episode we are going to be talking about moving with pain. Now to be clear I’m speaking more about acute pain and injury rather than chronic pain. Chronic pain, a completely different animal and one that needs more of a medical intervention or diagnosis from.

Even in those cases, we want to find a way to move our body joints increase our aerobic and anaerobic health without aggravating the issues that we are experiencing. There is no ONE way to solve pain, unless it’s a trauma a.k.a. car hit my leg, but pain and nondescript pain across the body can be a result of so many different factors. So it’s important to find ways to move that are beneficial and healthy for us and most the time getting an expert involved to do that is what you really need.

Pain sucks and if you’re living with it, my heart goes out to you. But don’t let it dictate everything that you do in your life and your physical health. Find ways to train to optimize your health, wellness and performance and we can help with that.

#sledtalk #pain #chronicpain #trainwithpain #injury #mobility #strengthcoach #strengthtraining #strengthandconditioning #workout #movewithpain #rehab #returntoperformance #orlando #curryfordwest

Looking good and moving well are not mutually excl

Looking good and moving well are not mutually exclusive.
The key?
Choosing the right movements for your body with a high reward to risk ratio, that match what your body can optimally do without significant compensation to create the ideal muscular stimulus.
For athletes, I like to throw in some velocity changes for those movements, combine bilateral and unilateral movements and band accommodations to add in some functional elements associated with the varied expressions of force across the continuum.
And news flash, machines can provide a functional stimulus. I know crazy right?
Thanks for letting me lift with ya @korcombat

#athlete #strengthtraining #strengthandconditioning #strength #personaltrainer #hypertrophy #workout #prowrestler #aew #glutes #arms #curryfordwest #cfw

You’ve heard of Ted talks? I’m going to intro

You’ve heard of Ted talks?

I’m going to introduce you to my new series, Sled Talks.

90 seconds or less on science based topics which focused on explaining elements of training in nutrition for all levels while I’m pulling or pushing a sled.

Our first sled talk is on something very pertinent to our sled work which is how do I know if I am optimizing my aerobic system or anaerobic system?

This is an important distinction because there are different adaptations that occur physiologically when I try to optimize one system or the other. In other words, there are a large amount of benefits from one to the other, and most of those benefits do not carry over from one to the other. So we want to make sure that our weekly training has something aerobic in it and something anaerobic in i.

Listen to this sled talk to learn how to drive your training toward more aerobic adaptations.

#sledtalk #vivos #myvivos #aerobic #aerobictraining #healthscience #exercisescience #fitness #personaltrainer #strengthandconditioning #livefit #cfw #curryfordwest

Father and Son Protein Shake time with Unconventio

Father and Son Protein Shake time with Unconventional Strength.
A lot of parents struggle to get our kids to eat healthy especially with getting enough fiber in their diets. I can tell you from experience adding a protein smoothie after school helps tremendously.
Using Strawberry Naked Whey protein, our favorite grass fed, no additives protein for this recipe. @nakednutrition

Strawberry/Banana Protein Shake
-2 scoops naked strawberry whey protein
-1 1/2 cups of almond milk
-1 Banana
-1 cup whole rolled oats
-6 whole strawberries
-5 pitted dates
-1 cup Greek yogurt
-3 tablespoons of chia seeds
-Add ice and water
Sharing size! 984 calories: 66g protein, 145g carbohydrates, 21g fat, 25 g of fiber

#kidsnutrition #proteinshake #receipe #healthyforkids #highprotein #nakedwhey #grassfed #nutrition

We heard the feedback and now we are debuting a ne

We heard the feedback and now we are debuting a new class format.

Listen in for the details.

Love to see you at our inaugural Functional Foundations class 9/4 at 7am.

Who is this class good for?
•Beginners to strength training
•Supplementary to rehab
•Recovery session
•Movement education
•Looking for low impact strength training solution
•Interested in a low lower price point option to experience our evidence based training principles.

#groupclass #workout #orlando #orlandogym #curryfordwest #cfw #strengthtraining #mobilitytraining #frc #stickmobility #trx

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